Motivational Quotes

Music

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Music

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Pound, Ezra

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Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Jean Baptiste Montegut

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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

21.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

27.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

29.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

30.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

32.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

35.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

38.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

39.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking,'Is there a meaning to music?'My answer would be,'Yes.'And'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?'My answer to that would be,'No.'

Aaron Copland

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Gibbons, Billy

43.

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.